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Neil Young- FREEDOM- CD- 1989/2000- Reprise Records/WEA International, Inc.- 075992589925- 400 grn
FREEDOM is the 17th studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released on October 2, 1989. FREEDOM relaunched Young's career after a largely unsuccessful decade. After many arguments and a lawsuit, Young left Geffen Records in 1988 and returned to his original label, Reprise, with This Note's For You. FREEDOM brought about a new, critical and commercially successful album. FREEDOM was Young's return to form after almost a decade of electronic experiments and mediocre novelty music. "Rockin' In The Free World," a howling anthem about homelessness, depression, and drug dealing, bookends the album - and, in 1989, proved the singer/songwriter hadn't completely dropped into obscurity. The romantic ballads ("The Ways Of Love"), grunge-predicting guitar-rockers (a siren-screaming version of "On Broadway"), and one amazing, punk-like story-song ("Crime In The City [Sixty To Zero, Part I]") constitute Young's strongest writing in years.
PERSONNEL: Neil Young – vocals; acoustic guitar; electric guitar; harmonica; piano; Chad Cromwell – drums; Rick "The Bass Player" Rosas – bass; Frank "Poncho" Sampedro – guitar, keyboards, mandolin, vocals; Ben Keith – alto saxophone, pedal steel guitar, keyboards, vocals; Linda Ronstadt – vocals; Tony Marsico – bass; Steve Lawrence – tenor saxophone; Larry Cragg – baritone saxophone; Claude Cailliet – trombone; John Fumo, Tom Bray – trumpet.
Neil Young is famous for scrapping completed albums and substituting hastily recorded ones in radically different styles. FREEDOM, which was a major critical and commercial comeback after a decade that had confused reviewers and fans, seemed to be a selection of the best tracks from several different unissued Young projects. First and foremost was a hard rock album like the material heard on Young's recent EP, Eldorado (released only in the Far East), several of whose tracks were repeated on FREEDOM. On these songs Young played distorted electric guitar over a rhythm section in an even more raucous fashion than that heard on his Crazy Horse records. Second was a follow-up to Young's previous album, This Note's For You, which had featured a six-piece horn section. They were back on "Crime In The City" and "Someday," though these lengthy songs, each of which contained a series of seemingly unrelated, mood-setting verses, were more reminiscent of songs like Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" than of the soul standards that inspired the earlier album. Third, there were tracks that harked back to acoustic-based, country-tinged albums like Harvest and Comes A Time, including "Hangin' On A Limb" and "The Ways Of Love," two songs on which Young dueted with Linda Ronstadt. There was even a trunk song, "Too Far Gone," which dated from Young's inebriated Stars 'N Bars period in the '70s. The romantic numbers were carefully and sincerely written. The long imagistic songs were evocative without being obvious. And bookending the album were acoustic and electric versions of one of Young's great anthems, "Rockin' In The Free World," a song that went a long way toward restoring his political reputation by taking on hopelessness with a sense of moral outrage and explicitly condemning President Bush's domestic policy. FREEDOM was the album Neil Young fans knew he was capable of making, but feared he would never make again.
Presented In A Standard Jewel Case With Black Tray Includes 12-Page Fold Out (2x3 Poster Format) Booklet With Photo Of Neil Young With Guitar And Harmonica On One Side; Lyrics, Tracklist, Credits, Back And Front Cover On Other Side. Second Booklet Inserted, Titled The Neil Young Collection, A Selection Of Neil Young's Discography/Videography At The Time Of Repressing.
On Disc: Made In Germany. On Back Cover: Manufactured In Germany.
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